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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing text between Tags, with output from a complex command Post 302445992 by Flang on Tuesday 17th of August 2010 10:29:16 AM
Old 08-17-2010
Replacing text between Tags, with output from a complex command
The Problem

I have n files all named "conf.cfg", each of which contain a line that reads: "MyVar=XXX", where XXX can be any value.

I have a second file called report.xml, that might read:
<Reports>
<Report>Report1</Report>
<Report>Report2</Report>
<Report>Report3</Report>
</Reports>

I want to replace everything between the <Reports> tag, with with all the new values I find.

What I have so far:

find . -name conf.cfg | xargs grep -l MyVar= | xargs sed 's/MyVar=*/<Report>/;s/$/<\/Report>/g

This will output for example:

<Report>dog</Report>
<Report>cat</Report>
<Report>mouse</Report>

However, I am unable to take the next logical step and insert that between the <Reports> tag in report.xml.

I tried a whole bunch of things... including

awk '/<Reports>/{p=1;print;print "'"$MyEnvironmentVar"'" }/<\/Reports>/{p=0}!p' report.xml

where $MyVar is the output of the find command... unfortunately, that doesn't work.



I could really use a hand here.
Last edited by Flang; 08-17-2010 at 11:57 AM..
 

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report-gtk

REPORT-GTK(1)							 LIBREPORT MANUAL						     REPORT-GTK(1)

NAME

       report-gtk - GUI tool to analyze and report ABRT problems

SYNOPSIS

       report-gtk [-vpdx] [-e EVENT] [-g GUI_FILE] PROBLEM_DIR

DESCRIPTION

       report-gtk is a graphical tool that reports application crashes and other problems caught by abrtd daemon, or created by other programs
       using libreport. report-gtk works with a single problem saved in specified PROBLEM_DIR. In the expert mode it enables access to and
       manipulation of problem data.

OPTIONS

       -d, --delete
	   Remove PROBLEM_DIR after reporting

       -e EVENT
	   Run only theset EVENTs on PROBLEM_DIR

       -g FILE
	   Alternate GUI file

       -p
	   Add program names to log

       -v, --verbose
	   Be verbose

       -V, --version
	   Display version and exit

       -x, --expert
	   Enabled advanced features

CONFIGURATION

   Reporting work flow configuration
       These configuration files are placed in /usr/share/libreport/workflows.

       Each file has XML formatting with the following DTD:

	   <!ELEMENT workflow	 (name+,description+,events*)>
	   <!ELEMENT name	 (#PCDATA)>
	   <!ATTLIST name	  xml:lang CDATA #IMPLIED>
	   <!ELEMENT description (#PCDATA)>
	   <!ATTLIST description  xml:lang CDATA #IMPLIED>
	   <!ELEMENT events =	 (event)+>
	   <!ELEMENT event =	 (#PCDATA)>

       name
	   User visible name

       description
	   User visible description

       events
	   List of executed events

       event
	   Name of event. If event is not applicable on the problem data or if it is not defined then process continues with next event sibling.

EXAMPLES

   Simple reporting work flow
	   <workflow>
	     <name xml:lang="en">Example</name>
	     <name xml:lang="cs">Piklad</name>
	     <description xml:lang="en">Example description</description>
	     <description xml:lang="cs">Piklad popisu</description>
	     <evetns>
		<event>analyze_example</event>
		<event>collect_example</event>
		<event>report_example</event>
	     </events>
	   </workflow>

AUTHORS

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